From: Nigel Hay -MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Tue Nov 16 2004 - 22:54:19 PST
Totally innapropriate fro this list
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
Behalf Of John Parsons
Sent: 17 November 2004 04:48
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: [MV] [Fwd: [Fwd: Fw: awesome!]]
Hi gang I know this is off topic but it's a real good letter.
Best Regards
John Parsons AKA Meat
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> This Is AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!
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> > Subject: Explaining the War in Iraq
> >
> > Don't Close Your Blinds
> > The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know
> > why we were at war.
> > My husband looked at our son and then looked at me.
> > My husband and I were in
> > the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored
> > to serve and defend our
> > country again today. I knew that my husband would
> > give him a good explanation.
> >
> > My husband thought for a few minutes and then told
> > my son to go stand in
> > our front living room window. He said "Son, stand
> > there and tell me what you
> > see?"
> > "I see trees and cars and our neighbor's houses." he
> > replied.
> > "OK, now I want you to pretend that our house and
> > our yard is the United
> > States of America and you are President Bush."
> > Our son giggled and said, "OK."
> >
> > "Now son, I want you to look out the window and
> > pretend that every house
> > and yard on this block is a different country" my
> > husband said.
> > "OK Dad, I'm pretending."
> >
> > "Now I want you to stand there and look out the
> > window and pretend you
> > see Saddam come out of his house with his wife, he
> > has her by the hair
> > and is hitting her. You see her bleeding and crying.
> > He hits her in
> > the face, he throws her on the ground, then he
> > starts to kick her to
> > death. Their children run out and are afraid to stop
> > him, they are
> > screaming and crying, they are watching this but do
> > nothing because they
> > are kids and they are afraid of their father. You
> > see all of this, son....
> > what do you do?"
> > "Dad?"
> >
> > "What do you do son?"
> >
> > "I'd call the police, Dad."
> >
> > "OK. Pretend that the police are the United Nations.
> > They take your
> > call. They listen to what you know and saw but they
> > refuse to help. What
> > do you do then son?"
> >
> > "Dad.......... but the police are supposed to help!"
> > My son starts to
> > whine.
> >
> > "They don't want to son, because they say that it is
> > not their place or
> > your place to get involved and that you should stay
> > out of it," my
> > husband says.
> >
> > "But Dad...he killed her!!" my son exclaims.
> >
> > "I know he did...but the police tell you to stay out
> > of it. Now I want
> > you to look out that window and pretend you see our
> > neighbor who you're
> > pretending is Saddam turn around and do the same
> > thing to his children."
> >
> > "Daddy...he kills them?"
> >
> > "Yes son, he does. What do you do?"
> >
> > "Well, if the police don't want to help, I will go
> > and ask my next door
> > neighbor to help me stop him." our son says.
> >
> > "Son, our next door neighbor sees what is happening
> > and refuses to get
> > involved as well. He refuses to open the door and
> > help you stop him,"
> > my husband says.
> >
> > "But Dad, I NEED help!!! I can't stop him by
> > myself!!"
> >
> > "WHAT DO YOU DO SON?" Our son starts to cry.
> >
> > "OK, no one wants to help you, the man across the
> > street saw you ask for
> > help and saw that no one would help you stop him. He
> > stands taller and
> > puffs out his chest. Guess what he does next son?"
> >
> > "What Daddy?"
> >
> > "He walks across the street to the old ladies house
> > and breaks down her
> > door and drags her out, steals all her stuff and
> > sets her house on fire
> > and then...he kills her. He turns around and sees
> > you standing in the
> > window and laughs at you. WHAT DO YOU DO?"
> >
> > "Daddy..."
> >
> > "WHAT DO YOU DO?"
> >
> > Our son is crying and he looks down and he whispers,
> > "I'd close the
> > blinds, Daddy."
> >
> > My husband looks at our son with tears in his eyes
> > and asks him..."Why?"
> >
> > "Because Daddy.....the police are supposed to help
> > people who need
> > them...and they won't help.... You always say that
> > neighbors are
> > supposed to HELP neighbors, but they won't help
> > either...they won't help
> > me stop him...I'm afraid....I can't do it by myself
> > Daddy.....I can't
> > look out my window and just watch him do all these
> > terrible things
> > and...and.....do nothing...so....I'm just going to
> > close the
> > blinds....so I can't see what he's doing........and
> > I'm going to pretend
> > that it is not happening."
> >
> > I start to cry.
> >
> > My husband looks at our nine year old son standing
> > in the window,
> > looking pitiful and ashamed at his answers to my
> > husband's questions and
> > he says..."Son"
> >
> > "Yes, Daddy."
> >
> > "Open the blinds because that man.... he's at your
> > front door..."WHAT DO
> > YOU DO?"
> >
> > My son looks at his father, anger and defiance in
> > his eyes. He balls up
> > his tiny fists and looks his father square in the
> > eyes, without
> > hesitation he says: "I DEFEND MY FAMILY DAD!! I'M
> > NOT GONNA LET HIM
> > HURT MOMMY OR MY SISTER, DAD!!! I'M GONNA FIGHT HIM,
> > DAD, I'M GONNA
> > FIGHT HIM!!!!!"
> >
> > I see a tear roll down my husband's cheek and he
> > grabs our son to his
> > chest and hugs him tight, and says... "It's too late
> > to fight him, he's
> > too strong and he's already at YOUR front door
> > son.....you should have
> > stopped him BEFORE he killed his wife, and his
> > children and the old lady
> > across the way. You have to do what's right, even if
> > you have to do it
> > alone, before it's too late." my husband whispers.
> >
> > THAT scenario I just gave you is WHY we are at war
> > with Iraq . When
> > good men stand by and let evil happen son, THAT is
> > the greatest EVIL of
> > all. Our President is doing what is right. We, as a
> > free nation, must
> > understand that this war is a war of humanity. WE
> > must remove evil men
> > from power so that we can continue to live in a free
> > world where we are
> > not afraid to look out our window so that my nine
> > year old son won't
> > grow up in a world where he feels that if he just
> > "closes" that blinds
> > the atrocities in the world won't affect him.
> >
> > "YOU MUST NEVER BE AFRAID TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT!, EVEN
> > IF YOU HAVE TO DO
> > IT ALONE!" BE PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! BE PROUD OF
> > OUR TROOPS!!
> > SUPPORT THEM!!! SUPPORT AMERICA SO THAT IN THE
> > FUTURE OUR CHILDREN WILL
> > NEVER HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR BLINDS..."
> >
> > This should be printed in every newspaper and posted
> > in every school in
> > America . Of course that won't happen so we'll use
> > the Internet. If
> > your blinds are closed, do nothing with this email.
> > If they are open, I
> > do not need to tell you what to do.
> >
> >
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